What are unattended updatesUnattended updates is a service within Linux that will automatically download and install updates on your Linux Machine allowing your Server to stay up to date.how to install and configure unattended updatesFrom your SSH console…

Varnish Web Accelerator What is Varnish? Varnish is an open source 'Web Accelerator' that can help speed up your website. It has the ability to cache static elements, such as images or javascript. I can also be used for load balancing or web security. Installing…

Installing GNOME desktop environment and VNC serverThis guide will walk you through the steps necessary to install the GNOME desktop as well as the vnc4server package for remote desktop access on your Debian 6 VPS. For this guide we will be using a one user…

Getting SOAP working usually does not require compiling PHP from source. I would recommend trying that only as a last option.For good measure, check to see what your phpinfo says, if anything, about SOAP extensions:$ php -i | grep -i soapto ensure that it…

UBC Primary parametersnumprocThis is the maximum number of processes and kernel-level threads allowed for a specific containerMany applications such as Apache, FTP and mail servers spawn a process to handle each client, so the limit on the number of processes…

MemcacheOverviewMemcache is a free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.Memcached is an in-memory key-value…

Wine What is it? Why do I want it?Wine was originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator" however it in most cases is referred to a Windows emulation tool on Linux. In most cases within a server environment the installation and use of WINE is not needed…

MySQL Optimizations Query Monitoring and TuningMySQL drives most dynamic web content in the modern age of websites WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and most other application utilize the robust features of MySQL. Your VPS will generally come with a 'vanilla' or…

How? Why? What? To have multiple SSL certificates run on a single IP address we need to utilize SNI, Server Name Indication (SNI) is an extension to the SSL and TLS protocols that indicates what hostname the client is attempting to connect to at the start…